Towel service cabinet



Jan. 2, 1934. s. KAIDY 1,942,292

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TOWEL SERVICE CABINET 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 Inventor Patented Jan. 2, 1934 UNITED STATES oFFIcE Application July 14, 1931, Serial No. 550,772 Renewed August 28, 1933 2 Claims.

The present invention relates to a towel service cabinet and has for its prime object to provide a structure whereby a device is provided for supporting a towel which at the same time holds the door of the cabinet in a locked position.

Another very important object of the invention resides in the provision of a cabinet of this nature which is exceedingly simple in construction, inexpensive to manufacture, thoroughly efficient and reliable in use, easy to manipulate and otherwise well adapted to the purpose for which it is designed.

With the above and numerous other objects in view as will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in certain novel features of construction, and in the combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a cabinet embodying the features of my invention.

Figure 2 is a vertical section therethrough.

Figure 3 is a horizontal section therethrough taken substantially on the line 3-3 of Figure 1, and

Figure 4 is a detail section through one side of the cabinet and a portion of the door.

Figure 5 is a View similar to Figure 1 of a slightly modified form of the invention, the parts being broken.

Figure 6 is a fragmentary detail sectional elevational view taken substantially on the line 6-6 of Figure 5.

Figure '7 is a fragmentary edge elevational view of the door having a retaining plate carried thereby in accordance with this form of the invention.

Referring to the drawings in detail it will be seen that the cabinet comprises a bottom 5, a rear wall 6, side walls 7, and a top 8. A door 9 is hingedly mounted as at 10 on one of the side walls '7. As will be noted from the drawings the door terminates a distance from the bottom 5 so as to leave a space.

Openings 12 are provided in the side walls 7 in registry with each other below the bottom of the door and have aperture wear plates 14 associated therewith. An opening 15 is provided in the side wall '7 remote from the hinges 10 to register with a recess 16 in the free edge of the door when the door is in a closed position. An aperture wear plate 17 is associated with the opening 15 while a similar plate 18 is associated with the recess 16. A U-shaped bar 19 includes a long leg 20 and a short leg 21. The long leg 20 is adapted to be projected through the openings 12 while the short leg 21 is adapted to be projected through the opening 15 and into the recess 16 and on the extremity of the leg 20 to the outside of the cabinet is a suitable lock 23 to prevent removal of p the rod. By taking off this lock 23, of course, the U-shaped rod may be removed thereby unlocking the door. Towels 25 have eyelets 26 through which leg 20 is extended thereby supporting the towels 24 to be used on 85 this leg 20. The remaining towels are stored on the shelf 2'7 inside the cabinet. The door of the cabinet may be furnished with a mirror 28.

In that form of the invention shown in Figures 5 to 7 inclusive, it will be seen that the cabinet is substantially the same as that shown and described with respect to the first embodiment of the invention, with the exception, that the cabinet in this second embodiment of the invention is equipped with a chamber for receiving soiled towels and to this end, there depends from the bottom wall 5' of the cabinet, a rear wall 6a, and side walls 7a. The soiled towel chamber formed by these walls 611, 7a, is also equipped with a suitable bottom wall, and has a door 9a suitably hinged as at 10a to the bottom wall 5' for closing the front of said soiled towel chamber.

In this form of the invention, the door 9 of the cabinet, has secured to the free edge thereof adjacent the bottom of the door a keeper plate 29 secured adjacent its upper end as at 30 to the said free edge of the door, and having its lower end depending downwardly beyond the lower edge of the door. The lower end portion of plate 29 is provided with an aperture for registry with an aperture 31 in an adjacent side wall 7 when the door is in a closed position. A U-shaped bar 19 has one leg 20' adapted to extend through the opening 31 and the opening in the plate 29 at the free end of said leg 20' while adjacent the crown portion of said bar, said leg 20 is received in a notch 32 provided in that side wall 7 to which the door 9 is hinged, and in alinement with the opening 31. A retaining plate 33 is pivoted to said wall 7' and is adapted to be swung to a position paralleling the wall '7' for closing the outer side of the notch 32. (See Figures 5 and 6). The leg 21 of said U-shaped bar 19, extends through openings provided in the side walls 741 of the soiled towel chamber, as shown in Figure 5. On the extremity of the leg 20 to the outside of the cabinet, is a suitable lock 23' to prevent removal of the rod. Obviously, in this form of the invention, the rod not only serves for retaining the door 9' closed and against unauthorized access to the cabinet, but the leg 20 extending transversely through the space in the lower portion of the cabinet also serves for supporting a towel to be used. In this form of the invention, the lower chamber for receiving soiled towels may be, and is preferably provided in that end wall thereof adjacent the closed end of the U-shaped rod, with an enlarged opening through which the lower leg of the U-shaped rod extends whereby upon swinging of the keeper plate 33 to a position away from the open side of the notch 32 a soiled towel on the rod may he slid from the upper leg to the lower leg of said rod and passed through said opening in the end wall 6a of the lower compartment to be stored therein, this storing of the soiled towel being accomplished as is apparent without material displacement of the said U-shaped rod.

Even though I have herein shown and described the preferred embodiments of the invention, it is to be understood that the invention is susceptible of further changes, modifications and improvements coming within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is:

l. A towel cabinet including in combination upper and lower compartments, a hinged door for the upper compartment, and locking means for said door including a keeper on said door, and a rod, substantially U-shaped to provide upper and lower parallel portions, which the upper of said parallel portions engaging said keeper and supported between opposed walls of the upper compartment exteriorly of said compartment, and the lower parallel portion supported between corresponding walls of the lower compartment interiorly thereof, said lower compartment having one of said walls provided with an enlarged aperture, and a towel provided with an eye through which said rod extends and by means of which said towel is suspended for use and guided to and through said aperture into said lower compartment.

2. A towel cabinet including in combination a pair of opposed walls, a door hinged to one of said walls for horizontal swinging movement, and a U-shaped rod having parallel sides, one of which is supported between said opposed walls, and means on said door engageable with said one side of said rod for securing said door in closed position.

SAMUEL KAIDY. 

